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Sun, July 3, 2022 | 18:39
Editorial
President Yoon Suk-yeol made a successful diplomatic debut at the NATO summit last week by opening the way for security cooperation with the transatlantic alliance. He also made ...
Korea's trade deficit in the first half of the year exceeded $10 billion, hitting a record high. Exports in the January-June period showed the best performance ever, but were far...
Thoughts of the Times
Ms. Park, one of my study group members, suggested donation hiking. This meant she invited her friend, Ms. Yang who lives in Canada, to Su...
Although it's been more than seven decades since the 1950-53 Korean War broke out, the United Nations Memorial Park in Busan still evokes ...
China Watcher
Difficulty knocks on the door out of nowhere. Adversity comes in many forms. We all bound to face hardships from which it seems there is n...
Blogs
Phillip Gillett, an American missionary working with the YMCA, is often credited as being the first to introduce baseball to Korea in 1905...
During the country's wettest season, a time that has seen expressways closed and rivers flooded, I make my way every morning to Hanyang Un...
On a beautiful fall afternoon in late October 1894, baseball made its appearance in Seoul. It isn't clear if this was the first baseball g...
Some people access Korea through its literature, others through its movies, its beauty products, its webtoons, or its history. The pathway...
Columns
. Andrew Hammond
The memorable phrase of Charles Dickens in “A Tale of Two Cities” that, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,” is one that...
Peter S. Kim
Amid stock market woes year to date, the spectacular boom and bust of the “Luna” cryptocurrency surpassed them all. Within a few days, bil...
I remember the phone call like it was yesterday - a buzzing ringtone just as I was about to start dinner before heading off to watch the w...
. Donald Kirk
The inauguration of Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. as president of the Philippines opens a highly controversial period in the convoluted ...
. Jang Da-wool
High temperatures scorched the Earth in June, including in North America, Europe, Russia, India and China. We, people in South Korea, also...
It wasn't that long ago that internet connectivity faded the moment one left a populated area like a city or big town; “no service” was th...
Sandip Kumar Mishra
After coming to power, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol proposed the so-called “ABCD strategy” (advance human capital, build health se...
In Beijing now, even the Biden administration may be singing in a new key. In recent weeks, its new Ambassador Nicholas Burns has posed fo...
To millions of oblivious Americans, “democracy” is just an abstraction conjured by dead men in powdered wigs, and “fascism” is just someth...
I once saw readers of The Korea Times from other countries commenting on an article about the money given as a gift at weddings here. The article was about the frustration of peo...
Cartoons
NATO and Russia
Lifeguard shortage
Tribune Service
Nicotine kills. Oh, not directly, for the most part. It's just so addictive that cigarette smokers find it nearly impossible to quit a product that subtracts years off ...
A recent wave of media attention has pointed to a toxic workplace culture in much of the Washington, D.C., political ecosystem. From the viral “Dear White Staffers” on ...
Overturning Roe v. Wade is not the first time the Supreme Court has driven a dagger into the heart of human rights and further divided a deeply troubled nation. But not...
Today in History

1894-Republic of Hawaii established

1933-Work begins on Oakland Bay Bridge

1942-First American bombing mission over enemy-occupied Europe (WW II)

1946-Philippines gains independence from US

1956-Independence National Historical Park established in Philadelphia

1966-LBJ signs Freedom of In...

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